On June 24, 2023, 19-year-old Gregorio Richard Soriano Jr. was fatally shot in Fort Worth, Texas. The shooting happened just before 6 p.m. in the 9900 block of Lone Eagle Drive, near White Settlement Road and North Academy Boulevard. Responding officers found Soriano with gunshot wounds; the assailant had fled before police arrived.
Authorities later identified 20-year-old Xavier Wyatt as a suspect and arrested him on September 2, 2023; he was booked into the Tarrant County Jail on a murder charge. No motive has been publicly disclosed. Soriano, born April 5, 2004, was remembered by family as a father, spouse, son, and friend; he is survived by his wife Diamond, son Jordan, his parents Gregorio Sr. and Elizabeth, sister Alyissa, brothers Christian, Ian, and Noah, and several grandparents and great-grandparents. A funeral mass was held July 1, 2023, at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Fort Worth to honor him.
Did anyone in the area see or hear anything near Lone Eagle Drive on the evening of June 24, 2023?